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I was mainly thinking of the bass, which is simply a big fat sine wave with a lowpass, and then a short clicking noise at the start, which is basically just a s
by JonnieCache 15y ago
I was mainly thinking of the bass, which is simply a big fat sine wave with a lowpass, and then a short clicking noise at the start, which is basically just a sine as well.
You can replicate it well enough with just those two elements anyway.
The snare is just some white noise and a highpassed sinewave.
The bell definitely sounds like it has ring modulation. I seem to remember the cowbell being the hardest one to rip off. The toms were tricky as well.
On the other hand, my fake 808 had a dub siren built in, a tape delay, overdrive and it could do triplet beats. It was awesome. That whole lab class was most amusing.
- effn 15y agoThe bassdrum is just an impulse exciting a lowpass filter at very high resonance. The clicking noise is generated by a specialized envelope that raises the pitch of the filter for the first few ms. The whole thing is then slightly overdriven to color the sound. Filtering a sine wave makes little sense, as you'll only end up altering the volume (unless you take the phase respone of the filter into account but this should be barely audible).
- wazoox 15y agoThat reminds me of the phase change synthesis of the Casio CZ :) I'm wondering if there's something (software or else) still able to do it?
- akx 15y agoXoxos has a couple phase distortion synthesis VSTs. http://www.xoxos.net/vst/vst.html http://www.xoxos.net/vst/vst.html If you lack a VST plugin host, http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm is very bare-bones but does the trick for doodling away and http://reaper.fm/ http://reaper.fm/ by Justin Frankel (of Winamp fame) et al. is a more full-featured DAW that supports VSTs.